Rash of Fortnite cheaters infected by malware that breaks HTTPS encryption

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1 total messages Started by Anne Lynn Wheeler Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:20

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Author: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:20

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Rash of Fortnite cheaters infected by malware that breaks HTTPS
encryption
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/rash-of-fortnite-cheaters-infected-by-malware-that-breaks-https-encryption/

For our HA/CMP product ... past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
we were working on both technical/scientific cluster scaleup with
national labs and commercial cluster scaleup with RDBMS vendors,
including Oracle ... old post with reference to JAN1992 cluster scaleup
meeting in Ellison's conference room
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

Within a few weeks, cluster scaleup is transferred, announced as IBM
supercomputer for technical/scientific *ONLY* and we were told we
couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... we depart a
vew months later.

Two of the Oracle people (from the Ellison meeting) have also left and
are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called
the "commerce server". We are brought in as consultants because they
want to do payment transactions on the server, the startup had also
invented this technology called "SSL" they want to use, the result is
now frequently called "electronic commerce". I wrote a whole rash of
posts from the period about "comfort certificates" ... the "merchant
digital certificates" (part of "SSL/HTTPS") provided uses comfort with
the appearance of security.

part of the series in this collection of SSL digital certificate posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts
including in this post collection
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm
from
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert
through
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert16


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